Windage-sight for firearms.



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WINDAGE SIGHT FOB FIREARMS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16. 1918.

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WINDAGE SIGHT FOR FIREARMS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I6. 1915.

1,291,684. Patented Jan. 14,1919.

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INVENTOF? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOVELL H. PAGE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTER.REPEATING ARMS CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

WINDAGE-SIGHT FOR FIREARMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOVELL H. PAGE, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Windage-Sights for Firearms; and I do hereby declare.

the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawingsand the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this application and represent, in

Figure 1 a broken plan view showing the application of one embodiment ofmy imp i'pved windage sight to a standard military r1 c.

Fig. 2 a detached view in rear elevation of the vertically adjustablewindage slide of my improved sight.

Fig. 3 a broken view in rear elevation of the receiver of the arm withmy improved sight shown with its leaf elevated.

Fig. 4 a vertical central longitudinal section on the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 a detached view in rear elevation of the slide shown as carryingthe windagemember.

Fig. 6 a detached edge view of the windage-member.

Fig. 7 a detached view thereof in elevation.

Fig. 8 a detached plan view of the aperture bushing.

Fig. 9 a view in horizontal section on the line 9-9 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 10 a detached view in rear elevation, of the vertically adjustablewindage-slide and oscillating windage-member of one of the modifiedforms which my imiproved sight may assume.

Fig. 11 a corresponding view of the slide, with the windage-memberremoved.

Fig. 12 a detached view in elevation of the windage-member.

My invention relates to an improved windage sight for firearms, theobject being to produce a simple, compact, reliable and convenientwindage sight of the type in which the leaf has no lateral adjustment.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a windage sight havingcertain details of construction and combination of parts as will behereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. 1 to 9 inclusive, Iemploy an oscillating windage-member 10 shown as anchorshaped, thoughthis specific form is not essential. Near the lower end of the centerline of the said member, I mount a sightopening in the form of anaperture-bushing 11, the projecting enlarged front end of which enters ahorizontal slot 12 formed in the center of the lower end of theelevation-slide 13 which is mounted for vertical adjustment upon theleaf 14 of the sight, the said leaf turnin at its lower end on a pivot15 the ends of which are fixed in the rear ends of two parallelhousing-flanges 16 formed integral with and rising above the uppersurface of the rear end of the receiver 17 of the arm. The said leaf 14is provided with a battle-sight aperture ring 18 of ordinary form and issustained in either of its two positions as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4,by means of a flat spring 19 fastened to the receiver by a screw 20.

At its upper end the windage-member 10 is formed with a verticallyarranged elongated slot 21 receiving a pin 22 mounted in the slide 13,whereby provision is made for the sliding motion of the upper end of thewindage-member, necessary to compensate for its virtual pivoting uponthe inner end of the aperture-bushing 11 as the same is movedhorizontally in the slot 12 which restricts the bushing to linearhorizontal movement. To provide for adjusting the sight for windage thelower ends of the windage-member are bent backward to formoperating-flanges 23 by which it is engaged for being swung in onedirection or the other. The said member is also provided with an indexmark 24 co-acting with a horizontal windage-scale 25 upon the lower edgeof the slide 2. To adjust the sight for windage, one or the other of theflanges 23 is engaged for swinging the windage-memher 13 in onedirection or the other, whereby the aperture sight 11 is caused totravel in a strictly horizontal line in one direction or the other, theupper end of the windagemember describing what may be called alink-motion upon the pin 22 on account of its provision with theclearance slot 21. The same result would be secured by locating the slot21 in the slide 13 and the pin 22 in the windage-member 10.

The slide 13 is formed, as shown, upon its rear face, with cuts 26 and27 for the exposure of the ordinary scales upon the edges of the leaf 14and the slide is held in any of its vertical adjustments by means of apawl 28. By my invention, I am enabled by simple means to convert astandard sight of the type in which the leaf is not laterallyadjustable, into a standard sight capable of windage adjustment.

In the modified form of my improvement shown in Figs. 10 to 12inclusive, the oscillating windage-member 29 is pierced on its medianline to form a sight-opening 30 in. place of the aperture bushing 11 ofthe construction previously described. The member 29 is also formed witha hole 31 located in line with the sight-opening 3O aforesaid andreceiving a forwardly projecting guidepin 32 entering a transverselyarranged curved slot 33 in the lower end of the vertically adjustableelevation-slide 34 which may be of any approved construction. The upperend of the member 29 is formed with a vertically arranged slot 35receiving a pin 36 mounted in the slide 34 and carrying the member 29which both oscillates and slides upon it. The curvature of the slot 33is calculated so that it will insure the movement of the sight-opening30 in a straight horizontal line 2 when the member is swung in eitherdirection. If preferred, the sight-opening may take the form of aV-shaped aperture or notch, the specific character of such opening beingimmaterial to my invention which is characterized by the employment ofan oscillating windage-member furnished with a sight-opening and appliedto a vertically adjustable slide in such a manner that when thewindagemember is oscillated the sight-opening, whatever its character,will be constrained to move in a straight horizontal line.

I claim V 1. In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination withthe leaf thereof, of a thuer he instablath remsn1 an ci llatingwindage-inembe carr iefilhmJ-ha saitfslide and furnished with asight-opening, and means for constraining the oscillating movement ofthe said member to cause its sight-opening to move in a straighthorizontal line.

2. In a windage leaf sight for firearms,

the combination with the leaf thereof, of a slide vertically adjustablethereupon, an oscillating windage-member carried by the said slide andfurnished with a sight-opening, and pin-and-slot connections between thesaid member and slide, whereby the sight-opening of the said member isconstrained to move in a straight horizontal line when the member isoscillated.

3. In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination with the leafthereof, of a slide vertically adjustable thereupon, an oscillatingwindage-member carried by the said slide and furnished with asight-opening, pin-and-slot connection between the upper end of thewindage-member and the slide to provide for the oscillating and slidingmovement of the said member with respect to the slide, and pin-and-slotconnection between the lower end of the said slide and member calculatedto constrain the sight-opening of the member to straight line horizontalmovement.

4:- In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination with the leafthereof, of a slide vertically adjustable thereupon, an oscillatingwindage-member carried by the said slide and furnished with asight-opening and with two operating-flanges between which the saidopening is centered, and means connecting the slide and member wherebythe said sight-opening is constrained to move in a straight horizontalline when the member is oscillated.

5. In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination with the leafthereof, of a slide having a horizontal slot and vertically adjustablethereupon, an oscillating windage-member carried by the said slide, anaperture-bushing carried by the said windage-member and entering thehorizontal slot in the slide whereby the lower end of the windage-memberis confined to horizontal straight line movement when the member isoscillated, and compensatory connection betivgen the upper end of thesaid member and s i e.

6. In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination with the leafthereof, of a vertically adjustable slide having a horizontal slot andmounted thereupon, an oscillating windage-member, an aperture-bushingmounted in the lower portion of the said member and entering thehorizontal slot in the slide, and pin-and-slot connection between theupper portion of the windagemember and the slide to compensate for theconfined straight line movement of the said bushing in the saidhorizontal slot.

7. In a windage leaf sight for firearms, the combination with the leafthereof, of a slide vertically adjustable thereupon, an anchor-shapedoscillating windage-member carried by the said slide and furnished withspecification in the presence of two suba sight-opemng, and means forproviding scribing Witnesses. compensatory movement for the said memherso that when it is oscillated its sight- LOVELL PAGE 5 opening will berestricted to movement in a Witnesses:

straight horizontal line. THOMAS C. JOHNSON,

In testimony whereof I have signed this FRANK A. PAUL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0."

